The good, bad and ugly of the Olympics

Highs, lows and plenty of medals for Team GB. Beijing has had it all

46 world recordsbroken in eight different sports. The United States have set the most with 11 world records. Seven of those involved Michael Phelps. 78 countriesat the Olympics have won fewer than eight gold medals in Beijing, the figure achieved individually by Phelps. If Phelps represented himself, and not the US, then he would be placed at ninth in the medals table, one behind Japan, and one in front of Italy and the Netherlands 5 competitors disqualified for doping - defending 400m hurdles champion Fani Halkia of Greece, Kim Jong-Su, a North Korean pistol shooter, Vietnam gymnast Thi Ngan Thuong Do, Spanish cyclist Isabel Moreno and Ukrainian heptathlete Lyudmila Blonska, also stripped of her silver medal. 437 BBC staff delivering 2,750 hoursof coverage at a cost of £3m of the licence fee. Was it worth it? Probably. 2 British sailorswho turned the air